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GROWING WITH COMMUNITY
Creating Shared Value is a business model that connects profitability with social progress. It starts from the understanding that business growth and community strength are linked.
When a company helps address needs such as building skills, supporting local economies, or improving environmental performance, it creates the conditions that allow both business and society to prosper.
This approach goes beyond traditional corporate responsibility. It’s not about charity or image — it’s about using business itself, through expertise, investment, and innovation, to solve shared challenges in ways that make sense commercially and socially.
At CSV, this thinking shapes every project. We look for ways operational improvements can also create local opportunity, reduce impact, and build regional resilience.
When business performance and community benefit move in the same direction, both become stronger and more sustainable over time.
Growth that stays local
Each project generates returns for producers while creating jobs, contracts, and local spending that stays in the region.
Stronger supply networks
Partnering with local contractors strengthens efficiency on projects and builds long-term capacity for regional businesses.
Community-informed solutions
Well before projects move ahead, we listen to community priorities and find ways our operations can support them. That includes engaging with Indigenous communities and working with vendors who bring Indigenous inclusion into their partnerships and procurement.
Investing in community
A portion of revenue from our Albright facility goes toward the Creating Shared Value Fund where local community members decide how the money is used.
Pathways for young workers
Hiring students and giving them field experience helps meet workforce needs while preparing the next generation for lasting careers.
Innovating for good
Technologies developed to solve operational challenges also aim to reduce environmental impacts and create wider gains for surrounding communities.
COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS
Creating shared value means making sure the benefits of development reach beyond our gates. The way we work with communities is part of that commitment.
We engage early to understand local priorities and carry them through every stage of a project, from design and construction to long-term operations. These relationships help us plan infrastructure that contributes to regional goals and reflects community values.
When our projects create opportunity and resilience in the places where we build, that is shared value in action.
INDIGENOUS RELATIONSHIPS
Creating shared value starts with respect for where we are. Our work begins with the land, the people who care for it, and the relationships that guide how we build.
We have learned that progress means taking care of what takes care of you. That understanding shapes how we plan, listen, and measure success.
Creating shared value is how we honour these relationships and leave strength behind for generations.
CSV reinvests a share of annual revenue from the Albright facility into the community through the Creating Shared Value Fund. Guided by an independent committee of local community members, and administered by the Northwestern Alberta Foundation (NAF), the fund supports projects that strengthen the County of Grande Prairie and bring community priorities to life.